2013 will be Britten’s centenary, so brace yourself for an onslaught of new and reissued recordings over the next 12 months. Saint Nicolas and A Ceremony of Carols remain two of the most beguiling, ...

Roxanna Panufnik nominates Arvo Part's Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten, "beautifully simple and spiritual" music that she feels a strong connection to; while Paul Griffiths... Show more Roxanna ...

The running theme of this disc is the Seven Magnificat-Antiphons by Arvo Pärt, written for the seven days leading up to Christmas Eve. They bestow an atmosphere of spiritual calm that pervades a ...

If you're not familiar with the work of Arvo Part then you're in for a treat this week because he will change the way you listen to music. Hi, you're with The Rhythm Divine on ABC Radio National and I ...

Written in 1942 during Britten’s sea voyage from the USA to England and premiered at Wigmore Hall in 1943, the cycle of 12 short movements for voices and harp sets ancient English and Latin texts with ...

Paavo Järvi and the Orchestre de Paris continue the series of highlights from the Proms archive, beginning with Arvo Pärt’s meditative Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten. Janine Jansen is the soloist ...

Guest conductor Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, formerly principal conductor of the Halle, conducts the orchestra playing Estonian composer Arvo Part's Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten, Mozart's Piano ...

When I was young I loved a boy; he loved Jesus more, and left. There followed a brief period of mawkish abstraction and counterfactuals, then life resumed. The only physical remnant of our time ...

Talented, urbane, and well-informed colleagues like John Kelman often make for a difficult act to follow. Kelman has long been the All About Jazz resident expert on all things ECM. Occasionally, his ...